Harriet Martineau Quotes & Sayings
19 most famous Harriet Martineau quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for her. She was a French writer who passed away on 27 June, 1876.
“The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.”
“What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?”
“You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.”
“The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.”
“If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.”
“It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.”
“Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.”
“Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.”
“A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.”
“I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.”
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